About FIMS

Mission

The mission of the Fisheries Integrated Modeling System (FIMS) is to enhance the connection of models used to assess the status of managed fish stocks to ecosystem, climate, and socioeconomic factors while meeting current management needs.

We aim to accomplish our mission with a user-friendly stock assessment tool that streamlines the development and application of scientific advice to inform current and future management needs of NOAA Fisheries’ regions.

Community

A team of experts within NOAA Fisheries is designing and developing the system, and we are advised by the FIMS Council which includes academic, industry, and international partners.

Contributions from individuals of all skill levels are welcome. The codebase and documentation heavily relies of contributions from volunteers and it is imperative that we receive both feedback and contributions from users to ensure the user experience remains true to our aim of being user friendly. The roles of internal and external collaborators are outlined in the roles section of this community playbook.

Get involved

Users and developers are welcome to join the Discussions board or submit bug reports using GitHub Issues. Please use the issues under collaborative workflow to make suggestions about the developer guide and the issues under the FIMS software repository for software design and development feedback.

Current project status

The project is constantly under development 🔨. Check out our progress so far below:

Metric Status
Development Status
Total Issues Total Issues
Closed Issues Closed Issues
Issues that Need Triage Issues needing triage
Pull Requests Pull requests
Calculate test coverage call-calc_coverage
R cmd check r-cmd-check
Google tests googletest
Community Playbook Status
Total issues Total issues
Closed Issues Closed issues

Release

The current release can be found on the FIMS release page. A list of all releases and their corresponding changes can be found on our changelog page.